1. What are the challenges faced by Cisco in introducing a major product like Viking? 1-1 Time to market pressure There is only one year for Cisco to launch the Viking product to market with low cost. Otherwise‚ the market share might loss. However‚ it is about 3 to 5 years for Cisco to launch a high-end product. To meet such tighten schedule‚ it’s imperative for Cisco team to perform a very collaborative operation and concurrent engineering in whole supply chain and NPI phase 1-2 Cost pressure
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Managing Information Technology Case Study 2: Cisco System Architecture: ERP and Web-enabled IT Cisco System Inc. is the leading company in the computer communications and networking industry. It became a public company since 1990‚ was founded in 1984 by two Stanford computer scientists‚ and the core business began with multi-protocol routers. It later continued to dominate the “Internetworking” market‚ which in turn reflected in its first year on Fortune 5000 in 1997
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ERP Question Paper Q. I . (A) Write a note on business modeling? (5) (B) What is the impact of Internet and World Wide Web on ERP products? (5) (C) Explain the concept of Supply Chain Management? State its benefits? (5) (D) Write short note on GAP analysis? (5) (or) (D)Explain integrated business model? (5) Q. II . (A)Explain direct and indirect benefits of ERP?(7) (B)Explain Financial Accounting Module? (7) (C) What is BPR? (6) Q. III . (A) Discuss the purchase
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shipped from all over the world to be assembled in Malaysia and then shipped to US and 20 other global markets. Each market has its own profit center with Independent executives that make local market decisions. Maytag wants to now implement an ERP system from SAP for a common sourcing and logistics platform
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APPLICATION OF THE VRINE MODEL IN THE ANALYSIS OF CISCO SYSTEMS‚ INC. Introduction Cisco’s acquisition of more than 115 companies since 1993 could have meant a significant challenge for integrating networks and other IT elements. Instead‚ Cisco IT has developed a standard set of principles and processes to help accomplish these integrations rapidly‚ consistently‚ and with minor disruption. Cisco IT continuously improves its integration expertise by applying the standards to each new acquisition
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planning (ERP) systems‚ focusing on the following questions. • • • • Why investigate ERP systems? How does ERP create value? What is the purpose and scope of this book? What is the outline of this book? Why Investigate Enterprise Resource Planning Systems? Enterprise resource planning systems are a corporate marvel‚ with a huge impact on both the business and information technology worlds‚ including each of the following dimensions: • • • • • • • • • • • • ERP affects
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Sectors‚ products‚ currencies and cultures. * No cross functional information sharing across islands. * Risks are growing‚ Efficiencies are Low Necessity of ERP * Business Integration * Flexibility * Better analysis and planning capabilities * Use of latest technology Roadmap for successful implementation of ERP software * Gap analysis: This is used to identify the improvisations necessary to improve the line of business. It also includes the negotiations between the company
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Cisco case 1. What are the challenges faced by Cisco in introducing a major product like Viking? There are four main challenges encountered by Cisco: Time-to-Market pressure: Cisco has only one year to launch Viking. Since the development of technology accelerates information exchange and boost customers’ demand‚ only companies that can catch the market transitions quickly can survive in the rapidly-changing society. Cost pressure: Price competition in hi-tech market is rather fierce. E.g.
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Case Assignment‚ Chapter 6 (Short Answer) Management What Would You Do? Cisco Systems‚ Palo Alto‚ California. Your board of directors wants to know: How should Cisco grow? Your response was‚ “Well‚ the way we’ve grown in the past is. . . .” “No. That’s not the question. Looking backward is easy. How should we grow in the future? Should we build or buy?” And with the next board meeting in only 3 months‚ you don’t have much time to come up with the answer. Cisco started in 1984 as the plumbers
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Tammy MacLean November 16‚ 2011 Cisco Systems (2001): Building and Sustaining a Customer-Centric Culture Introduction/General Problem Statement: Doug Allred was Vice President of Customer Advocacy organization of the Cisco’s corporation. This organization was erected to consolidated all functions that directly touched the customer but sales to provide high-quality customer service. Since August 2001‚ the IT market turned down and brought severe challenges to Cisco as the company had to lay off 18%
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